Heyerdahl

American  

[hay-er-dahl] / ˈheɪ ərˌdɑl /

noun

1. Thor 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.

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Heyerdahl British  

/ ˈhɛiərdaːl /

noun

1. Thor (tɔː). 1914–2002, Norwegian anthropologist. In 1947 he demonstrated that the Polynesians could originally have been migrants from South America, by sailing from Peru to the Pacific Islands of Tuamotu in the Kon-Tiki , a raft made of balsa wood. DNA testing in the late 1990s indicated that such a migration did not actually take place

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Heyerdahl

There was only a middle-aged woman on a middle-aged show, correctly answering clues about the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, or the British adventurer Robert Falcon Scott.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2022

Jonathan Scarfe and Christopher Heyerdahl also star. 10 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2016

Around the same time, adventurer Thor Heyerdahl wrote up his experiences crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat and noted his dismay at finding bits of tar and other garbage along the route.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2016

Why did Heyerdahl cross the ocean on a raft?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2014

But then Fru Heyerdahl had begun to be even more careful about her, and when the Christmas festivities began, she was strict.

From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

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